Silvia Levenson

Walking together: for them and for us

Silvia Levenson (Argentina, 1977)

Levenson immigrated to Italy in 1981, during the "disappearances" of the Dirty War.                                               

She explores daily interpersonal relationships through installations and objects that state firmly what is usually felt or whispered. Her work is centralized on this unspeakable space, which is oftentimes so small, located between what we can see and what we feel, and she uses glass to reveal those things that are normally hidden.

BIO

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia Levenson immigrated to Italy in 1981, during the "disappearances" of the Dirty War.  She explores daily interpersonal relationships through installations and objects that state firmly what is usually felt or whispered.

Her work is centralized on this unspeakable space, which is oftentimes so small, located between what we can see and what we feel, and she uses glass to reveal those things that are  normally hidden.

In her work she mainly uses glass because she considers it an ambiguous element. It is a material that we all know well because it protects and insulates our homes, we use it to preserve our food and drinks, but somehow, we also know that it is  fragile, that it can break into thousands of pieces and hurt us. For the artist, it becomes the ideal material to show the ambiguity of human relationships and things that exist but are hidden  behind the thousand folds of what we call reality. 

In 2004, Levenson received the Rakow Commission Award from the Corning Museum of Glass. In 2008 she was a shortlisted nominee for the Bombay Sapphire Prize and in 2016 she received The Glass in Venice Award from Istituto Veneto, Venice, Italy.

Her work has been exhibited around the world and is a part of several public collections including Corning Museum of Glass, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fè, Houston Fine Art  Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Charlotte, Chrysler Museum of Art, Sunderland Glass Museum, UK, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Alexander Tutsek-  Stiftung, Munich, MUDAC, Lausanne and Castello Sforzesco Museum, Milan. 

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